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Show LIES TOLD FOR POLYGAMY. Pursuing its policy of giving to tho pooplo all I he evidence possiblo upon matters which havo an important bearing bear-ing upon community affairs in Utah, Tho Tribune herewith presents a portion por-tion of an affidavit made by Lucy Walker Wal-ker Smith before James jack, notary piiunc and a resident of this city. Tho affidavit was made on October 2-t, 1002, the following boing thc-first paragraph of tho document: I was a plural wife of tho prophet Jo-soph Jo-soph Smith, and wns married to him at mJ!uv?0, l1.1" Stat! of Illinois, on the first day of May. IS in. by Elder W'VlUun Y.u?t0xXY -T,1 ?rPhet was then livln-ulth livln-ulth his first wife. Emma Smith, and I Know thnt sho gave her consent to the marriage of nt least four women to her husbnnd as plural wives, and that she was well awnrc thnt ho associated and coluKbited with them as wives. Tho names of thoso women were. Ellr.n and Emily Partridge nnd Maria nnd Sarah Lawrence, all of whom knew that I too was his wife. This statement from Lucy Walker Smith is interesting in view of the fact that, as she states, her marriage in polygamy to Joseph occurred about tho timo Hint tho members of tho ladies' rc-liof rc-liof society caused to bo printed in the Nauvoo Times and Seasons an emphatic denial that the polygamous doctrine was taught or practiced in tho Mormon church at that period. Among tho signers sign-ers of that denial wns Emma Smith, who, Lucy Walker Smith declares, had personal knowlcdgo of Josoph's polygamous polyg-amous relations. Besides, thcro is the official nolico signed by Joseph and Hy-rum Hy-rum Smith, and printed in the Nauvoo Times and Seasons under dato of February Feb-ruary 1, ISM, almost a year after Lucy testifies sho was married to the " prophet." pro-phet." That notico brands tho doc trine of polygamy as being falso and corrupt and citos Elder Hiram Brown, who preached it, to appear and answer charges of having promoted it contrary to the belief of the church. It is probable that thcro has boon no othor one thing occur in tho history of the world about which thcro has boon so many falsehoods told as have been uttcrod concerning Mormon polygamy. Tho lying, evasion and decoption that havo been constantly practiced in order to cover up the inception and practice of that doctrino aro the surest evidence that the men who engaged in it know thnt it wns immoral and antagonistic lo law and Christian sentiment. Thoir constant efforts to conceal show that in reality thoy wero ashamed of it, notwithstanding not-withstanding their pretense thnt it was a divino institution. |